Some presentations and presenters of Christianity are, in my view, overly obsessed with the Death of Jesus such that they over-emphasise it, and end up marginalising the Incarnation of Jesus, the Ministry of Jesus, the Resurrection of Jesus, the Ascension of Jesus and the giving of the Spirit of Jesus. It probably wouldn’t be fair to use any label for . . . → Read More: full gospel
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second verse by Cohen: And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said “All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them” But he himself was broken Long before . . . → Read More: suzanne A million and one ‘both/and’ tensions result from what C.S. Lewis calls ‘the Grand Miracle’ which we celebrate and remember with the holiday of Christmas – the Incarnation. Creator with created. Cause with caused. Supernature with nature. An-historical with history. Saviour with saved. King with slaves. Holy with lowly. Strength with weakness. Honour with scandal. Glory with shame. Joy with . . . → Read More: god with us Genesis & Exodus | Creation & Redemption. Gospel of Jesus | New Genesis & New Exodus >>> New Creation & New Redemption. Kim Fabricus recently offered twelve ripostes for ‘militant atheists’, one of which was about prayer. —Prayer plainly doesn’t work. —Thank God!1 On a spectrum of immature to mature, understandings of Christian prayer will range from the anthropocentric and mechanistic2 notion that prayer is about us invoking God to do something we want for our world, to the more theocentric and . . . → Read More: praying with jesus Matthew 1:1 – “This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:” A short verse. The 16 words above (TNIV) translate only 8 Greek terms.1 It not only summarises the following genealogy (1:1-17), but hints at key themes of the whole gospel. We are being prepared for much more than merely the family . . . → Read More: small verse – big theology For all of the supposed humility of negative theology (“We’re merely saying what God could not be like…”) or metaphor (“We’re only saying what God is like, not what God is…”), Christians make the audacious claim that we are right and all other religions are wrong… don’t we? Well, yes and no. Yes, on one hand. We do claim that . . . → Read More: god is like… pt 2 I’ve the privilege of preaching the last passage in Luke (24:13-53) this Sunday night. Wow. What a passage! Just for the hey of it, here’s a painting by Caravaggio called ‘The Incredulity of Thomas’, based on this and the other parallel gospel passages. What a painting! Note Jesus' hand guiding Thomas' own hand . . . → Read More: end of luke On Luke 22:63 – 23:25: After the failure of followers to follow (sleeping watchmen, a sell-out treasurer [Judas], and a crumbling Rock [Peter]), the pattern of doing the opposite of one’s vocation continues: Guards, meant to protect the process of justice by ensuring that a subject makes it to trial, abuse, beat, blindfold and taunt Jesus. “Prophecy! Who . . . → Read More: silent word In chapter 10 of his gospel (or not far into the Jerusalem journey narrative as he would have seen it – he didn’t divide his gospel into ‘chapter and verse’), Luke presents an exchange between an expert in the Law (of Moses – i.e. Torah) and Jesus. The lawyer is first trying to ‘test’ Jesus, and uses a fairly standard . . . → Read More: who is my neighbour? |
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